VisualWorks 7 Pre-release Patches

Patch	Description
PreReleasePatch01	StORE for SQL Server connection bug
PreReleasePatch02	StORE modal dialog control bug
PreReleasePatch03	Change log immutability bug
PreReleasePatch04	StORE Optimization - Experimental
PreReleasePatch05	Web Toolkit lockup bug
PreReleasePatch06	Patch for Change Log Reading past previous snapshot markers
PreReleasePatch07	Patch for Refactoring Browser

Known Bugs and Limitations

• The virtual machines for VW 7 will not run older (5i.4 and previous) images. There have been several changes to the VM that make it impractical (such as immutability). This is a change for this release.
• The file-out type is set to chunk instead of XML. To change this, open System>>Settings>>File out type from the launcher and change the setting. If you don?t change it, get patch PreReleasePatch03.
• To avoid using the patch, take these steps
• Set File-out type to XML
• From the launcher, select System>>Changes>>Condense Changes
• Save the image when prompted
• Macintosh issues ? the VM that got packaged with this release is not current, and was compiled as an assert engine rather than as a production engine. Because of this, performance on any Macintosh platform will be very slow ? probably unacceptably slow. This will be addressed after Smalltalk Solutions; check the patches page above for information.
• You can get a walkback trying to connect to SqlServer in Store. There is a patch available for this problem, PreReleasePatch01.
• The StORE monitor dialog (the one that displays which package is being loaded) doesn't relinquish control of the keyboard when an unhandled exception is generated when loading a package. There is a patch available for this problem, PreReleasePatch02.
• After loading StORE, there is a duplicate page under Store>>Settings>>Prerequiste Loading. This will be addressed for the regular release.
• Loading a bundle from StORE, where one or more embedded packages have package (not parcel) pre-requisites, can result in very slow load times. Check back on this web page for a patch.
• The Documentation for ADVance is missing. Download it here.
• There is a bug in the web toolkit which can cause the server to lock up under some circumstances. Either load version 1.0.205 from the public repository, or file in patch PreReleasePatch05.st.
• The change list has a bug that prevents proper reading of changes past snapshot markers. Get PreReleasePatch06.st.
• The RB has an MNU bug on some selector queries. Get PreReleasePatch07.st.

• StORE performance can be slow when computing changes between packages - and this can impact the load time for packages stored as source rather than binary. The following modifications speed up change computation, but have not been thouroughly tested yet.
• File in PreReleasePatch04.st.
• Using any query tool against your database, drop these views:
• drop view tw_methodsandsourcesview
• drop view tw_dataandsourcesview
• drop view tw_pkgclassesandsourcesview
• drop view tw_pkgnamespacesandsourcesview
• Login to StORE as the admin user, and execute this in a workspace: Store.DbRegistry update7